1. It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate. 但事实并非如此：节俭者要依靠挥霍者。
2. The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate. 德国人需要的是一种不同的集权制，它建立在惩罚挥霍的基础上。
3. So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway. 所以这些变化仅仅是将来气候变化的前兆，尤其是在如果我们继续肆意排放二氧化碳的情况下。
英英解释
n.
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. a recklessly extravagant consumer adj.
1. recklessly wasteful
2. unrestrained by convention or morality
